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...operate today's military machine, and the military is finding it more difficult to recruit such men and to keep those it has. An Army major with 15 years experience who oversees a research laboratory receives about the same pay as a fresh out of grad school research scientist employed by private industry. An Air Force jet engine mechanic with four years' service earns three hundreds dollars a month; his counterpart an American Airlines makes twice the amount...
...Kennedy. Even more significant was the orderly transition with which one democratic leader gave way to another in a moment of great stress. Acknowledged with profound respect, it created a sense of reassurance and clarity about the U.S.'s role in the free world. In Bonn, a political scientist said: "The mechanism of a great democracy turned on, smoothly, calmly, if somberly, adjusting to tragedy, overcoming it. The Cabinet and legislature continued to function. It was, as it had to be, business as usual. How many nations could guarantee the same if their heads of state were murdered...
This boon to mankind is another application of the omnipresent computer, developed by nongolfing Scientist Maximilian Richard Speiser from a system he had invented for tracking low-flying ballistic missiles. Speiser applied the system to golf balls...
From the outset they eschew the political scientist's concern with institutions alone and concentrate instead on "the large forces that determine the content of policy." They realize that policy decisions arise not from technical considerations but from conflict among interests, ideologies, values, and prejudices. This conflict and the management of it constitute the political process...
...sense the fault is with scientists who in explaining non-conservation of parity are preoccupied with its sophisticated ramifications. These are undeniably important to other scientists. This preoccupation, however, does cause difficulties in communication with non-scientists and obscures the broader significance of the overthrow of a scientific law. Such an overthrow is most significant to the non-scientist as a lesson in the psychology of science, or more broadly, in the psychology of scholarly inquiry. Joel Tenenbaum...